Yesterday evening we had a little celebration of my birthday. My birthday cake was a mini pecan pie and my ice cream was from a dollar store. You gotta make compromises when traveling on a boat.
While most of the leaves have fallen from the trees back home (Cincinnati) many of the trees here are just getting around to dropping their leaves.
While waiting for a lock to open, we had an opportunity to tie up to a community dock at a park and stretch our legs. Another boat pulled in behind us and we chatted with them for a while. They're from Canada and have already done the loop in a sailboat. No they're doing it in a trawler.
While at the park Denise stepped on a dirt mound of ants and got bitten by a bunch of them.
We saw lots of shore bird activity as we traveled south.
This is a screen shot from a program we have running on our iPad. The magenta color line is the path we follow. This is a good example of why we have to travel a long distance on the path the river takes, to travel a short distance as the crow flies.
Once again we saw several alligators along the shore. In this case we saw two at once.
Last week we shared a photo of a phone booth set up in the woods along the edge of the river. Today we saw something similar in the form of a barber chair in an equally obscure location.
We have a device on our boat called a chart plotter. The captain is supposed to keep the little boat in the river channel on a dashed line called a sail line.
However, sometimes the little boat is out of the channel, on a beach or in the woods. That's why it pays to have multiple navigation devices, as well as keeping both eyes on the river.
We saw a family of deer getting drinks. They didn't;t seem to mind us passing by.
This evening we anchored in a creek along with another looper whose boat is named Paradise. They have a YouTube channel we watch. The rope in the photo is from us tying the back of our boat to a tree, while the front of the boat is secured to our anchor. This configuration prevents us from swinging around during the night.
Today we passed the 1,000 total miles point and we also set a new record for miles covered in one day at 71.3 miles.
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